The Nuclear Equation of State: Part B: QCD and the Formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: NATO Science Series B:, cartea 216b

Opening Remarks.- Experimental Observation Of Collective Flow And Particle Production In High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions.- Collective Flow Measured with the Plastic Ball.- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Studied with the Streamer Chamber at the BEVALAC.- Fragment Flow and Squeeze-Out of Hot Dense Nuclear Matter.- Stopping Power and the Equation of State at Intermediate Energy.- Collective Flow Measurements in Asymmetric Nuclear Collisions.- 4? Fragment Measurements at MSU and the Nuclear Equation of State.- Collective Flow of Charged Fragments and Neutrons from Bevalac Experiment 848H.- Pion and Proton Emission in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions.- Hard Photons and Subthreshold Mesons from Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions.- Hard Photons from Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions.- Production of Lepton Pairs at the LBL Bevalac.- Intermediate Mass Fragment Emission in the Reacitons Nb+Au and Fe+Au at 50 to 100 MeV/A.- The HISS TPC.- THEORETICAL MODELS FOR COMPRESSION PHENOMENA AND PARTICLE PRODUCTION.- The Equations of State and Viscocity in the Hydrodynamic Model.- Transport Theory, Viscosity, and Kaon Production.- Study of Observables from Heavy Ion Data using VUU and QMD Calculations.- Medium Effects and Nuclear Transport Theory.- Many Body Modes of Excitation in Heavy Ion Collisions.- How to Extract the Nuclear Equation of State from Heavy Ion Data.- Transverse Momentum Generation and Dilepton Emission in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions.- Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck Model for High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions.- The relativistic BUU Approach - Analysis of Retardation Effects and Thermal Properties.- High Energy Photons and Pions in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Reactions.- Photon and Pion Production in Heavy Ion Collisions.- Dilepton Production inHeavy Ion Collisions.- On the Derivation of the Quantum Molecular Dynamics Approach.- Fermionic Molecular Dynamics.- Mean Field and Collisions in Hot Nuclei.- Nuclear Multifragmentation and the Equation of State.- Medium Energy Collisions and Multifragmentation.- DISTINGUISHED LECTURES ON: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF NUCLEAR SHOCK WAVES.- Introductory Remarks to the lectures of E. Schopper and A.M. Poskanzer.- Early History of Shock Waves in Heavy Ion Collisions.- A History of Central Collisions at the Bevalac.- The SIS/ES R-Project at GSI-Present and Future.- High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and the RHIC project at Brookhaven.- HIGH T SUPERCONDUCTIVITY.- Adaptation of the Theory of Superconductivity to the Behavior of Oxides.- SPECIAL TOPICS.- High Pressure Equation of State in Various Areas of Physics - Overview.- Scale Transformations, the Energy-Momentum Tensor, and the Equation of State.- Density Functional Theory at Finite Temperatures.- The Collective Spin of Nuclear Surface Vibrations.- Review of the Current Status of Cold Fusion.- Coulomb Assisted Cold Fusion.- Cold Confusion.- COMPRESSIBILITY OF NUCLEAR MATTER AND FINITE NUCLEI.- The Nuclear Matter Saturation Problem.- Variational Theory of Nuclear and Neutron Matter.- Exploring Many-Body Theories in Light Nuclei.- Spectral Functions and the Momentum Distribution of Nuclear Matter.- Meson and Quark Degrees of Freedom in Nuclear Matter and Finite Nuclei.- The Relativistic Mean-Field Model of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics.- The Giant Monopole Resonance and the Compressibility of Nuclear Matter.- The Nuclear Matter Compressibility from Breathing Mode: A Semi-Phenomenological Approach.- Nuclear Compression Modulus from Monopole Data.- THE NUCLEAR EQUATION OF STATE IN SUPERNOVAE AND NEUTRON STARS.- Constraints on the Nuclear Equation of State from Type II Supernovae and Newly Born Neutron Stars.- The Hadronic Equation of State and Supernovae.- Supernovae and Stellar Collapse.- Neutron Stars, Fast Pulsars, Supernovae, and the Equation of State of Dense Matter.- Constraints on the Equation of State for Neutron Stars from Fast Rotating Pulsars.- Neutron Star Calculations in the Relativistic Hartree and Hartree-Fock Approximation.- The Equation of State and Properties of Neutron Stars.